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Genus Axinella 0. S.
Axinelia rugosa Bow. (0. S.).
Dictyocylinclrus rugosus, Bo ver bank, Mon. Brit. Spong., II. pag. 119. III,
Plate 20, fig. 1—4.
Axinella rugosa, O. Schmidt, Grundzuge einer Spongien-Fauna des Atl. Ge-
bietes, pag. Gl, Pl. 4. fig. 15.
This species is represented by five specimens; all these
specimens differ from the Swedish ones. Their branches are
joined in such a manner as to make the sponge look very like
PhaJcellia ventilabrum L. (Bow.). Four specimens are
infundibuli-form, the largest being about 90 mm in height, and the greatest
diameter of the funnel 30 mm.
Halitat. Greenland, Lat. 59° 33’ N., Long. 43° 25’ W., deptli
120 fathoms (576 S.); East-coast of Greenland, depth 130 fath.,
(580 S.).
Axinelia vermiculata Bow. var. erecta Carter.
Hymeraphia vermiculata, Bow. var. erecta Carter, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.,
Ser. 4, Yol. 18, 1876. — Descrip.
and fig. of deep-sea sponges and
their spicules from the Atl. Oc..
dredged up on board H. M. S.
»Porcupine», chiefly in 1869, pag.
307, Plate 12, fig. 14 and Plate 15,
fig. 26 a, b.
The above-mentioned species is represented by eight
specimens well preserved. The largest is pedicelled, branching
irregularly, the branches being very thick. This specimen is
100 mm in height. The branches are more or less compressed,
anastomosing. The other specimens are less complicated,
forming only one branch, slightly infiated at the termination.
The specimens of this form agree with the figure, which
Carter has given of this interesting sponge. The surface
is very hispid, furrowed, the furrows being covered with the
thin, reticulate dermal membrane. The spicules are like those
described and figured by Carter. I have often seen these
spicules divided in two branches at the one point.
The colour is yellowish white or yellowish grey.
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